Posted on 07/25/2007 8:16:23 PM PDT by secreg32
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
“The New Deal was instituted as a set of temporary measures (which unfortunately became permanent) that were meant to try and reinvigorate the country. FDR only came up with the idea because actually the alternative was a hell of alot worse.”
Not true at all. The first New Deal was designed to be permanent but alot of it was thankfully temporary. If its intent was to reinvigorate the economy, it failed miserably. Actually, it plain failed. Roosevelt’s ideas came from his brain trust; he brought in “new Dealers” that were a mix of progressives and socialists, and they wanted to control the economy. Their solution was economic fascism, and it was designed by people who thought ecnomic freedom was a bad thing ... there was nothing more radical contemplated than what Roosevelt did with the NRA.
In politics, staffing is everything, and Roosevelt’s major decision was his decision to staff his administration with a large number of socialist “new dealer” progressives. Their influence lives on to this day ... remember the name
Ickes?
“The first New Deal, the centerpiece of which was the National Recovery Administration (known as the Blue Eagle from its popular symbol, accompanied by the slogan “We Do Our Part”), was based on the idea that government would play an active role in the economy by joining forces with business and labor in a cooperative relationship. Its ultimate goal (to the extent that the pragmatic Roosevelt ever had an ultimate goal beyond restoring the political legitimacy of the government) was state-directed capitalist planning. The NRA set out to organize the national economy, industry by industry, enabling each organized sector of the economy to regulate wages and prices and competition on the theory that planning would prevent further economic instability and would promote the growth needed to end the Depression. This version of the New Deal, the brainchild of economists such as Raymond Moley and Rexford G. Tugwell, never achieved the goals its planners had for it; when in 1935 the Supreme Court invalidated the NRA, even Roosevelt secretly was glad to see it go. “
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay10.html
In After The Zot
Ooops! He was Hilarious.
Why was this account banned or suspended? Joe Kennedy was also guilty of supporting Hitler. We can’t choose our relatives.
Me bad! Joey was ambassador to Britain, not Germany (though he would have liked to be....)
You have a quick mind, a mean wit, and a facile keyboard.
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